Wherefore Art Thou Gods?
This is read aloud in four parts over on my TikTok if you prefer to listen. It’s labeled Religion and Spirituality over there. ❤
Warning: I deviate from this script here and there lol
My history with religion and spirituality is long and complicated. Some might say you shouldn’t even listen to me, and that’s valid. I just put my thoughts out there, and if you vibe you vibe. If not no hard feelings. Life is too short for either of us to worry what the other thinks.
I used to share from a space of fear, and it would be easy to go away and be quiet. To hang my head in shame, but I wasn’t built for the easy way out of anything. There is nothing easy about learning to accept yourself as worthy and modeling self-respect for your children. Not when examples were sorely lacking from your life.
To have lived a life where all you ever saw was women sell their self-respect, their dignity, their relationship to their children all for a crumb of attention from abusive, angry ass men. And to have found myself repeating that. I have clawed my way out of a personal hell, and…
